Android Fundamentals: Activities

The most basic component of an Android application is the Activity. Without an Activity a user cannot interact with the application UI and this course will show you the conceptual topics related to an Activity.

Course info

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(115)

Level

Beginner

Updated

Aug 4, 2016

Duration

2h 43m

Description

Start developing Android apps and get a deeper knowledge of basic Android Components such as Activities in real quick time. In this course, Android Fundamentals: Activities, you'll be learning all about Activity and its related fundamental concepts. First, you'll get an introduction to Android Components and progressively cover the topic of Event Handling, Logcat, and also dive into the building block component of any Android apps. You'll be learning about Android Component Activity such as its lifecycle and its behavior on screen rotation. Finally you'll learn how to exchange data between activities. By the end of this course, you'll have a very strong foundation on the topic of android activities.

About the author

Sriyank is a passionate software developer and loves to share his knowledge through his blogs and video courses. He follows "share and gain" principle which led him to publish many courses online. Though he has a deep love for Android he also specializes in other mobile app platforms such as iOS and also web development frameworks such as Laravel. He started his journey of sharing knowledge by holding hands-on workshops in various top level Indian Institutes such as NITs and IITs which eventually made him the speaker of one of the Google Developers Groups India which further supported his workshops in many more institutions. Currently Sriyank is working as freelance software developer and a proud online trainer. Apart from this, he loves to travel and explore new places.

Section Introduction Transcripts

Course OverviewHi, this is Sriyank Siddhartha, and welcome to my course of Android Fundamentals: Activities. I have several years of experience on Android, both as a developer and trainer, and I have published several courses on Pluralsight based on Android. This course basically talks about Android fundamental component of Activity, which is the very first component that you encounter while developing the Android applications. If you want to leverage your Android knowledge, then you should go over this course, as this course will cover the topics of introduction to Android Components, event handling inside the activity, using explicit intent to share data across activities, exploring activity lifecycle, and dependency of activity on screen orientation. So by the end of this course, you will have a very strong foundation on the topic of Android Activities. So let's together explore this topic of Android Activities at Pluralsight.